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Education

• A.M., Ph.D., Brown University
• B.A., Wesleyan University

Selected Publications

• “(Un)Making Gender, (Un)Making the Nation: Feminist Literary Approaches to the Armenian Genocide.” Forthcoming (January 2026) in Women’s Studies.
• “ ‘Come, Dear Sister, Let’s Unite’: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective.” Diaspora, vol 25, no 1, 2025, pp. 185-206.
• “Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation.” The Oral History Review, vol. 51, no. 2, 2024, pp. 254–77.
• “Lentils in the Ashes: Excavating the Fragments of Ancestral Feminism.” Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced us as Feminist Academics and Activists. Eds. Vanessa Reimer, and Sarah Sahagian. Bradford, Ont.: Demeter Press, 2013. 168-180. Print.
• “Third Wave Feminists: The Ongoing Movement for Women’s Rights.” Women's Rights: People and Perspectives. Ed. Crista DeLuzio. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2010. 207-223. Print.​
• Coughlin, Maura, et al. “Roundtable on teaching ‘Work’ as an interdisciplinary first-year college seminar.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12/13 (2010): 97-106. Print.
• “Becoming White: Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies.” Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). 27 (2002): 213-37. Print.
• “Armenian American Women Inhabiting Our Bodies: Gendered and Embodied Ethnicity in Carol Edgarian's Rise the Euphrates.” Ed. Barbara Merguerian and Doris Jafferian. Armenian Women in a Changing World: Papers presented at the First International Conference of the Armenian International Women's Association. Belmont, MA: AIWA Press, 1995. 184-193. Print.

Courses

• FYS 100 Gender Games
• FYS 100 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Masterplots of Gender
• GEND 200 Gender and Society
• GEND 201 Feminist Inquiry
• GEND 250 Current Issues in Feminism
• GEND 262 (Connections) Lights, Camera, Gender!
• GEND 263: Debating Gender Issues through Role-Playing Games
• GEND 350 Food, Gender, Identity, Power
• GEND 352 Feminist Theory

Additional Information

Specializations

• Intersectional feminist theory
• Gender in U.S. culture
• Armenian and Armenian diaspora feminisms

Awards & Affiliations

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization
• National Women’s Studies Association
• Reacting to the Past Consortium
• Phi Beta Kappa